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I'm one of those people who is technically skilled in a non-artistic discipline, but hasn't developed enough skills in more traditionally artistic things, despite having a deep love of art. I'm sure it's a tale as old as time. It defines a lot of my life choices…
The way I've managed this is by trying to use my technical skills for artistic applications. Why did I quit my job and write an iPhone OS 2 emulator? Why was my previous job a few steps removed from, but highly relevant to, video games? Why am I interested in MIDI and OpenGL? etc
Obviously I'd be happier if I was also able to create my own art, though. So why don't I? Well, the main barrier is psychological. Forming new habits and getting yourself past the feeling of a new thing being daunting is really hard. But I'm slowly getting there.
I haven't gotten to the end of that journey yet, but I can give some advice for starting it: if you ever feel like “god, I wish I'd done X ten/fifteen/twenty/… years ago”, then you have to do it immediately, RIGHT NOW. Make that entry purchase or whatever, seize the energy.
not that my technical skills aren't useful for making art, mind you, but I haven't gotten deeply into it and using programming to make pretty things is a skill in itself. occasionally I've made nice things: https://hoshi.noyu.me/